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Naloxone Retail Dispensing Is Up 70 Percent

October 22, 2018 by ATForum

“Thirty years ago during the height of the United States’ HIV/aids epidemic, the U.S. Surgeon General, C. Everett Koop, sent informational brochures on the disease to every American household. The campaign was effective in helping shift the debate from the moral politics of intravenous drug use to the importance of prevention, such as condom use, and medical care. “No one will require more support and more love than your friend with aids,” Koop wrote.

On Thursday, U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams said that Koop’s brochures have been updated for 21st-century technology—and for 21st-century health crises. “We don’t send out information by snail mail anymore,” Adams said during a conversation with Kathleen Koch, an author and journalist, and Nora Volkow, the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, at The Atlantic Festival. Instead, the surgeon general’s office created a digital postcard aimed at preventing opioid misuse and overdose deaths, and posted it on the office’s website for people to download and distribute.”

The postcard can be accessed and downloaded at: https://addiction.surgeongeneral.gov/sites/default/files/SG-Postcard.jpg

Read more at: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/10/us-surgeon-general-jerome-adamss-naloxone-mission/572233/

Source: The Atlantic.com – October 5, 2018 and the Surgeon General.gov website

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The postcard can be accessed and downloaded at: https://addiction.surgeongeneral.gov/sites/default/files/SG-Postcard.jpg

Read more at: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/10/us-surgeon-general-jerome-adamss-naloxone-mission/572233/

Source: The Atlantic.com – October 5, 2018 and the Surgeon General.gov website

Filed Under: 2018, News Updates

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